dare

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See also: Dare, DARE, daré, darė, darë, dåre, and даре

English

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
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Etymology 1

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From Middle English durren, from Old English durran, from Proto-Germanic *durzaną (“to dare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰórse (“to dare”), reduplicated stative of the root *dʰers- (“to be bold, to dare”), an *-s- extension of *dʰer- (“to hold, support”). Cognate with Low German dören, Dutch durven, Sanskrit दधर्ष (dadhárṣa), but also with Ancient Greek θρασύς (thrasús), Albanian nder, Lithuanian drįsti, Russian дерза́ть (derzátʹ).

Verb

dare (third-person singular simple present dare or dares, present participle daring, simple past and past participle dared or (archaic) durst)

  1. (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
    I wouldn't dare argue with my boss.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The fellow dares not deceive me.
    • (Can we date this quote by Macaulay and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Because they durst not, because they could not.
  2. (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
    I dare you (to) kiss that girl.
  3. (transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
    Will you dare death to reach your goal?
    • (Can we date this quote by The Century and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
  4. (transitive) To terrify; to daunt.
    • (Can we date this quote by Beaumont and Fletcher and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, / Would dare a woman.
  5. (transitive) To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)

Usage notes

  • Dare is a semimodal verb. The speaker can choose whether to use the auxiliary "to" when forming negative and interrogative sentences. For example, "I don't dare (to) go" and "I dare not go" are both correct. Similarly "Dare you go?" and "Do you dare (to) go?" are both correct.
  • In negative and interrogative sentences where "do" is not used, the third-person singular form of the verb is usually "dare" and not "dares": "Dare he go? He dare not go."
  • Colloquially, "dare not" can be contracted to "daren't". According to the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, "daren’t" is used occasionally in ordinary past time contexts (Kim daren’t tell them so I had to do it myself).
  • Rare regional forms dassn't and dasn't also exists in the present tense and archaic forms dursn't and durstn't in the past tense.
  • The expression dare say, used almost exclusively in the first-person singular and in the present tense, means "think probable". It is also spelt daresay.
  • Historically, the simple past of dare was durst. In the 1830s, it was overtaken by dared, which has been markedly more common ever since.

Derived terms

Translations

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See also

Noun

dare (plural dares)

  1. A challenge to prove courage.
  2. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      It lends a lustre […] / A large dare to our great enterprise.
  3. Defiance; challenge.
    • (Can we date this quote by Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Childish, unworthy dares / Are not enought to part our powers.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Sextus Pompeius / Hath given the dare to Caesar.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old English darian.

Verb

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  1. (obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified. [16thc.]
  2. (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear. [16thc.]

Etymology 3

Noun

dare (plural dares)

  1. A small fish, the dace.
    • 1766, Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing:
      The Dare is not unlike a Chub, but proportionably less; his Body is more white and flatter, and his Tail more forked.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dare”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Crimean Tatar

Noun

dare

  1. (music) tambourine

Italian

Etymology

From Latin dare, present active infinitive of dō, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).

Pronunciation

Verb

dare

  1. (transitive) to give, to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else
  2. (transitive) to yield, to bear, to give, to produce, to return

Usage notes

The imperative forms of the second-person singular are compounded with pronouns as follows:

Conjugation

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Derived terms

Noun

dare m (plural dari)

  1. debit

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

dare

  1. Rōmaji transcription of だれ

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

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  1. present active infinitive of dō
  2. second-person singular present passive imperative of dō

Leonese

Etymology

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Verb

dare

  1. to give

References

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

dare ? (plural dares)

  1. (continental Normandy, anatomy) belly, stomach

Synonyms

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

dare (Cyrillic spelling даре)

  1. vocative singular of dar

Slovak

Noun

dare

  1. locative singular of dar

Zazaki

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɑˈɾə/
  • Hyphenation: da‧re

Noun

dare

  1. tree
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